A new Movie Web report has set off a rumor about the exit of Optimus Prime with Transformers 5.

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The report states that Optimus Prime is probably going to retire after the fifth installment and that Ultra Magnus will probably take the lead and guide the autobots to wage war against the evil elements. In fact there is going to be a new robot army altogether with brand new autobots coming on board.

There could be some truth to this as Optimus Prime seems to have bigger fish to fry, away from mortal soil, like in the end of the Age of Extinction he was seen going into outerspace to Cybertron to find his maker. Perhaps that storyline will be concluded in Transformers 5, and Optimus Prime will be part of another realm altogether, bidding earth farewell.

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According to a recent Deadline report, two concrete storylines have emerged from the writers workshop for the future of the Transformers series. One of which will focus on Cybertron as an origin story. This is going to be animated feature helmed by Ant-Man writers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Head writer Akiva Goldsman has got the blueprint for Transformers 5 and is going to begin writing it.

While little is known about how the Cybertron story will evolve, we are guessing it's going to pick up from the end of Age of Extinction, which showed Optimus Prime heading off to Cybertron in search of his creators. So this might be a movie in itself, and not a parallel storyline in Transformers 5 as was being speculated before.

The writing team that was led by Goldsman, featured Christina Hodson (The Fugitive), Lindsey Beer (Dig), Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk), Jeff Pinker (Lost), Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man), Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.

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